Really Mean Quotes - Page 4

• The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Mean, Fighting, Hands

  "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.

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• Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Light, Order

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• We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Law, Courses

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Military, Mean

  Remarks on the Message on Education, January 12, 1965.

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• Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.

  Rebecca McCann

  Work, Greed, Should

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• We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

  Paul Valery

  Hate, Mean, Self

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• New socialize by insulting each other, but don`t really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don`t really mean it

  Granger Smith

  Girl, Country, Mean

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• The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.

  Misty Copeland

  Mean, Looks, Weight

  Source: collider.com

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• It's important to me to say what I really mean.

  Christopher Reeve

  Mean, Important, Importance

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• Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Mean, Simple

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• Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.

  Dave Ramsey

  Mom, Mean, Two

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• Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

  John F. Carlson

  Powerful, Mean, Blue

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• I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.

  Roger Zelazny

  Mean, Important, Arrogant

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• It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mean, Harder

  "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010.

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• Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

  Octavia Butler

  Mind, Energy, Mouths

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago”, p.765, Open Road Media

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• Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

  Jules Verne

  Brain, Mind, Madness

  Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.634, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mean, People, Needs

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.153, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Failing, Stills

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• I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

  Steven Tyler

  Pain, Believe, Reading

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• The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls itself capitalist or communists, in the pursuit of 'progress' , it will visit genocide either on its own people or on another people whose country must be plundered for resources to feed the Progress industry.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Mean, Civilization

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Mean, Want

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Season of Ponies”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Loyalty, Mean, Two

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• I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people, the way 'Community' means something to people. [...] That's more powerful than ratings.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Powerful, Mean

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

  Judith Martin

  Mean, Friendly, Social Behavior

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• People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.

  Rutina Wesley

  Mean, People, Vicious

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